Marriage

Since this is the first article that l am writing, l thought that it might be nice if I introduce myself here. My name is Jo and l’ve been married to my best friend and destiny for 41 years. We have three grown children and four grandchildren. None of them live near us unfortunately.

We were married at a very young age, 18 years old. He was in the Navy at the time and for the first year and a half of our marriage, we spent more time apart than together as he was aboard ship. lt helped us to grow up, that is for sure. l remember we would have arguments and each one of us would say to the other "grow up". The fact was, we were both immature and needed to grow up.

We were very fortunate in the fact that whenever we had a problem, we believed in working together and not against each other to correct what was wrong. We had our share of struggles but always worked with each other. Neither one of us believed in divorce and always felt that we needed to work thorugh whatever the obstacle was. We had our share of ups and downs as most people do, but divorce was not a option. We are so thankful that we felt that way.

We didn’t know the L-rd in those days so had no idea how G-d felt about love and divorce, but we knew that it wasn’t for us. Than when we found G-d and Yeshua (Jesus) we realized that G-d hated divorce. We spent many years going to every marriage seminar that we could. Not because we had a problem with our marriage, but because we felt that the more we could learn, the more it would benefit us. lt not only strengthened us but helped us to counsel other couples.

We went through several marriage classes including MMI and than through Assemblies of G-d we went through the 12 week NAME class and became certified although it never did get off the ground at the church we were going to. Than when we went to a NAME Seminar one year, we entered into a covenant marriage.

We need to understand some basic principles from G-d’s written word, the Bible. G-d joined men and women together in marriage, in a lasting relationship. A covenant. We must understand a covenant as G-d sees it.

A covenant is an agreement or a pact between two people that binds them in a deep relationship. They are no longer two separate people but bound together as one. Covenant love is faithful.

When you marry, you enter into a covenant. You and your spouse make certain promises to each other, We say certain words to each other probably not even realizing what we are saying because we are so nervous. We make promises and vows to each other which alot of times we don’t take seriously but G-d does. The words for better for worse,for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health really mean something to G-d. How many times do we fall on worse times, poorer times or sick times and we run away. That is not what we vowed to do! G-d has heard the vow that we made and we need to honor what we say and do what He wants us to do.

G-d loves us and has put us with who He wants us to be with and we need to realize that and to show Him that we are going to do what He wants us to do. Sure, we will have struggles at times, but He is always there for us and with us.

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Jo
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